At Providence Family Practice Residency, Dr. Liz Stuhmiller, a third-year resident in the program, gives a presentation for other resident doctors on how to identify the signs of a stroke in a patient. As the state's two leading universities prepare to battle it out in the Legislature over whose vision of physician training is best for Washington's needs, new studies indicate small town social dynamics may have as much or more to do with America's rural doctor shortage as the number of medical schools and curriculum. Story here. (SR photo: Colin Mulvany)

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